"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)."Erik Keilholtz

Under the patronage of St. Tammany

Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children.Email

Dig the Beat poetry slam with Herman Munster ("Ibbity bibbity canal boat") and a chick from High School Confidential who apparently gave elocution lessons to Hillary Clinton. ("Tomorrow is dragsville, cats.") Yes, that's Uncle Fester on the piano.